MOVIE REVIEW - 10,000 BC

Many times I feel movies are made solely to see if the movie maker can do it. That's 10,000 BC.

10,000 BC is a 100 minute story of various civilizations 10,000 years ago. It attempts to explain the unexplainable according to the writers. More on that later. First let's dish out some kudos. The sets on this movie are spectacular, as are many of the beautiful sites around the world this movie is shot in. There's a big soundtrack that's nice, and legendary Omar Sharif is the narrator.

Now let's flip it over. 10,000 BC is a disjointed, hard to explain, big budget.....mess. Who stars in this movie? Who cares? We're supposed to believe that 10,000 years ago, great warriors traveled thousands of miles on foot with no food or water, speaking a multitude of languages in bare feet all while sporting perfectly groomed goatees! Toss in a feeble attempt to explain the great pyramids, sphinx, a mention of Atlantis, and some lousy loin cloths, and we're just getting warmed up.

Don't forget to throw in a tiny helping of computer generated mastodons, some goofy looking, shadowy man eating big birds too. Not to mention the movies primary promotional character, the gigantic computer generated sabre tooth tiger. Oh by the way, he is on screen for a whole 25 seconds or so no kidding! Mix it all up with a few mediocre, hand to hand battle scenes, and characters you never really get to know or care about and you've got a real snoozer here.

In all seriousness 10,000 BC is a silly, why did they really make this movie. A love story of sorts, where our hero warrior travels the world over to free his people, and save his love. The whole time I was watching it, I was wondering who these people are, where they were on earth. Also a note, I almost always feel that when you have to have a narrator throughout the ENTIRE movie the class of Omar Sharif, you're having a tough time telling the story through cinema, so someone has to tell it for you. It's just not my thing in movies.

10,000 BC too will more than likely give way to another, and more than probably another, so we should get used to it. Doesn't mean we have to like it.